The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.