"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."