The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.