Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

To love is to be vulnerable.

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.