Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

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.

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

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

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.