Perhaps the best thing for the princess would have been to fall in love. But how a princess who had no gravity could fall into anything is a difficulty–perhaps the difficulty.
There are times, and those times many, when the cares of this world-with no right to any part in our thought, seeing that they are either unreasonable or God imperfect- so blind the eyes of the soul to the radiance of the eternally true, that they see it only as if it ought to be true, not as if it must be true; as if it it might be true in the region of thought, but could not be true in the region of fact.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.' 'But you have just told me you were sexton here!' 'So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
