The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

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!

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.