But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.