To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

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