God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

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

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light.

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.