He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.