Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!