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

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

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

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.