... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

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.

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

Sure thing, Gumdrop.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

I have plenty of Law & Order on my resume.

He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.