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.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

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.

Calculation never made a hero.

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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.