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.

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

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.