Anger is self-immolation.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.