Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.