We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

Time hath a taming hand.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

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