Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.