Nothing is further from Earth than Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth. - Julius Hare

Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

A Faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none. It is only Doubt taking a nap in an elbow chair. The husband, whose scepticism is prurient enough to contemplate the possibility of his wife's proving false, richly deserves that she should do so.