Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.