Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.