What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
Study nature as the countenance of God.
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.
The world is God’s world, after all.
Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not “desperately wicked,” it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still – that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.
All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.