Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.