When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.