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

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.