Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.