People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

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.