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

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

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