I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.