Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

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

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.