Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; - for causes which are unpenetrated

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.