Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

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.

Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.