But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

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 first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.