Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

If you thirst you may drink.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.