"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."

"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."

"It is a quiet truth that when purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign — an essential principle for the reflective life."