If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.