The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.