No people find each other more absurd than lovers

What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.