We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

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

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; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.