He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.