By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.