Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.