Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.