No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'