Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.