The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Beauty rests on necessities.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.