The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.