Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.