Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

True obedience is true freedom.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.