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

What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

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.

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

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.