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

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.