and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!