If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

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