If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.