“Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once.”

“We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head. ”

“A false ring of the night bell, once answered — it can never be made right.”

“I’d smack you over the head with it so hard your bell would still be ringing for Church next Saturday night. ~ Jaz”

“Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.”

“Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.”