With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.