The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

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

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.