You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

By and by never comes.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.