Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

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

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

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

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.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.