The whole secret is to do the thing the Master tells you: then you will understand what he tells you.

The opinion of the wisest man, if he does not do the things he reads, is not worth a rush.

He may be partly right, but you have no reason to trust him." "Well, you shall be my chaplain.

To-morrow, if I'm able to listen, you shall see what you can make of the old sinner." Mary did not waste words: where would have been the use of pulling up the poor spiritual clodpole at every lumbering step, at any word inconsistent with the holy manners of the high countries?
Once get him to court, and the power of the presence would subdue him, and make him over again from the beginning, without which absolute renewal the best observance of religious etiquette is worse than worthless.

Many good people are such sticklers for the proprieties! For myself, I take joyous refuge with the grand, simple, every-day humanity of the man I find in the story--the man with the heart like that of my father and my mother and my brothers and sisters.