Selfishness has never been admired.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.