“Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.”

“The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.”

“At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.”

“Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.”

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

“I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.”

“If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts”

“Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.”

“Nature is neutral.”

“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is ...”

“Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.”

“War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.”