Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.