We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.

How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

To try to be brave is to be brave.