Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

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.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.