To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.