We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

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

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

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