The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.