Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.