The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You t…”

“We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carri…”

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would …”

“For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains c…”