The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

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

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.