The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.