The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

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.

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'