All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence