I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.