Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

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.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.