Love and do as you will.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

By and by never comes.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.