You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.