Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.