“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.” — Oswald Chambers

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.