God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find ….

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand..

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague..

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it..