But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.