It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.