All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.