The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

No man does anything from a single motive.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.