Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.