Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. |
Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient |
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. |
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. |
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done. |
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. |
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often |
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. |
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. |
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. |
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless |