I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.