The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.