Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.