When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.