No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.