To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.