Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.