It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.