The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

Life is a solitude.

We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.