Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

You cannot make a cheap palace.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.