How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.