He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it, hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

She’s the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.