Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

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

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

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin