Miscellanea

Let it be as great an affliction as it will, it is not as great as your sin.

Our resentment is against the timetable which the sovereign God has assigned us, a schedule based on a plan of which we are usually ignorant. It is this ignorance which …

The hour is coming when we shall be astonished to think what mere trifles were once capable of discouraging us for though many things we now meet with have a kind of …

However, the essence of a fallen world is that the best cannot be attained by free enjoyment, or by what is called ‘self-realization’ (usually a nice name for …

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their …

It is not reasoning but neglecting to reason, and to extend conclusions to their just consequences, that I condemn as the vice of the age.

How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? … I will pity Mrs. …