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.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.