It may be they are nearer saved than you are.

No man can' be "worried" into accepting anything, even though _you_ may deem it the only Truth.

I have known men whom others regarded as agnostics who had given more study to the question of personal religion than any ten of their critics.

I can recall three--all of whom were men of wonderful mentality and great earnestness of purpose.

John Burroughs's first essays were written for his own soul's welfare--the results of his long-continued mental struggles for light upon the subject.