My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures to reflect that not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.