How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

You cannot see the mountain near.

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.