Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

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

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

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.

Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.' 'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.