When shall I learn to believe that God takes better care of His own than I can do?
I was faithless and impatient to-night.

I am afraid I betrayed myself before that man.

He looks like one, certainly, who could be trusted with a secret: yet I had rather that he had not mine.

It is my own fault, like everything else! Foolish old fellow that you are, fretting and fussing to the end! Is not that scene a message from above, saying, 'Be still, and know that I am God' ?" And the Major looked out upon the summer sea, lit by a million globes of living fire, and then upon the waves which broke in flame upon the beach, and then up to the spangled stars above.
"What do I know of these, with all my knowing?
Not even a twentieth part of those medusae, or one in each thousand of those sparks among the foam.

Perhaps I need not know.