Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.