There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps will ever do. But surely ... they would have put it into spirits, or into the Illustrated News, or perhaps cut it into two halves, poor dear little thing, and sent one to Professor Owen, and one to Professor Huxley, to see what they would each say about it.