The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.