If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.