You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.