They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.