Does God reign, or did it all happen?
Sometimes it seems so deadly probable that the universe just was, no God to plan it, nothing but things; that we die as sparrows die, and the brain is all the soul we have, a thing that becomes clogged and stops some day.

And is that all ?" She shivered slightly, but her steadfast eyes did not shift from him.

He threw back his head, and his face, uplifted to the jewelled sky of the moonless night, was beatific in its peacefulness, as he continued in an altered tone, gentle and low: "I think all questions are answered there.

The stars tell it all.

When you look at them you know! They have put them on our flag.