Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.