We live ruins amid ruins.
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
To Be is to live with God.
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Who loses a day loses life.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he does from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.