Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.