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.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.