The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.