What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.