Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine; And thou shalt be mine, my spirit's bride, In the ceaseless flow of eternity's tide, If the truest love thy heart can know Meet the truest love that from mine can flow. Pray God, beloved, for thee and me, That our sourls may be wedded eternally.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.