And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.