No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.