Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.