We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.