“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

“Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!”

“Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.”

“We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”