Where there is no certainty the mind must turn to the light and not the shadow.

Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

He goes back to his childhood, as old men do.

Questions are as supple as willow wands, it’s easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he’ll which way to fall.

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we’re sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

Meet every man as you find him, for we’re all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

It’s a kind of arrogance to be so certain you’re past redemption.

Beauty is a perilous gift...