He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.