To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.