Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.