I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.