This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.