We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness-the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

I only know when I don't know a thing... . wisdom lies in that.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

I find that doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing His plans.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.