The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.