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

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.