The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.