There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.