The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Worship is transcendent wonder.