Man is emphatically self-made.

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

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.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

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

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