People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.