Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.