Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

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.

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.