You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

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.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

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.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.