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

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

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

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

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.