What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.