The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

All fires burn out at last.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.