The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Man is emphatically self-made.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

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.