Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

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

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.