An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.