Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.