Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves

The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.

I think I'll be working a lot less as I get older

Good manners are a sign of strength.

I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.