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

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

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

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

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.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.