A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.