However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.