It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.