When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.