O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.