To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.

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

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.