One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.