Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.