There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.

Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.

You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood.

Foul whisperings are abroad.

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

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

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.