What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort…”

“The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for it…”

“Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thin…”

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together ove…”