The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.