Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.

Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.