I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.