O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep; Thou bearest angels to us in the night, Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light Sorrow is some ol…

- Jean Ingelow

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

- Jean Ingelow

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

- Jean Ingelow

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

- Jean Ingelow

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

- Jean Ingelow

we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

- Jean Ingelow

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

- Jean Ingelow

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

- Jean Ingelow

When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedg…

- Jean Ingelow