I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

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!

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.