Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

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

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

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

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.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.