I have had prayers answered-most strangely so sometimes-but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.

As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day, what form of religion a man has professed-nay, that many who have never even heard of Christ, will in that day find themselves saved by His blood.

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

If you drink from a bottle marked "poison" it is almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any.'