My life is not an apology, but a life.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.