Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.