There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.