Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.