“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God”

“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth”

“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages”

“Conscience is an oracle of the divinity”

“The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me”

“And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray”