Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.