We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.