The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

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