Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ...

Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!

People see what they expect to see.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

Darkness... When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.

Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.