If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

All haste implies weakness.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

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