The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

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.

You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible