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

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

Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.