For nothing [...] is more heavenly than to resist and to yield; to yield and to resist.

I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me—as you judge me—from my fluency.

You can't drive a bayonet through a chap's body in cold blood, he remembered him saying. And you can't go in for an exam. without drinking, said Edward.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.

Lusts within are worse than lions without.