celestial quotes

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.