Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.