Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If I may not, let me think how nice they would be and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the worlds holds, and be content without it.