Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

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

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.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.