In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.