There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.