The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.