We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.