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

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.