To act is easy; to think is hard.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

With knowledge grows doubt.