Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.