Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.