The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

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

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.