If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

All haste implies weakness.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.