As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.