A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.