"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

"Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself."

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."