A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.