Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.