“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”

“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

“Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debateare as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements andalarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and itfell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of myfellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in thestrength to keep to it.”

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”