Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.