The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

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 know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

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.

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

Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.