To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.

If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?

But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.