Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.