They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.