The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.