It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

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

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.