It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.