Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.