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.

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

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

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

A true friend is forever a friend.

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

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.