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 first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

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

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

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