Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.