There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

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.

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.