People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people