In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

Pride ruined the angels.

Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.