Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.