The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

If you thirst you may drink.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.