What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.