Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.