We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

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

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.