God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

Surprise is the secret of joy.

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.