"His little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs."

"Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence."

"Then the great old, young, beautiful princess turned to Curdie. 'Now, Curdie, are you ready?' she said. 'Yes ma'am,' answered Curdie. 'You do not know what for.' 'You do, ma'am. That is enough."

"I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my eyes, but the unseen filled my brain."

"Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only in the unfaith of man, does life recognize any sway of death."

"But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings."

"It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others."

"He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined."

"All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come."

"It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men."

"Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil."

"Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again"

"If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either."

"Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing."

"Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner."

"No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather."

"To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good."

"Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable."

"Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue."

"Past tears are present strength."

"And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay."

"Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will."

"I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better."

"You doubt because you love truth."