Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.