Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.