Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Some people are proud of their humility.