What is predestination? It is this: God is mightier and wiser than we are, and so he does with us as he pleases.
Toleration should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
Faith, Love, and Hope once felt, in a quiet sociable hour, a plastic impulse in their nature; they worked together and created a lovely image, a Pandora in the higher sense, Patience.
'I stumbled over the roots of the tree which I planted.' It must have been an old forester who said that.
A leaf blown by the wind often looks like a bird.