It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.' 'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.