What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

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

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.