Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.