Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.