There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.