Pearls

16/12/55
It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.

28 March 1961
Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often themselves quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

8 Nov 62
The truth is that the only alternatives are either solitude (with all its miseries and dangers, both moral and physical) or else all the rubs and frustrations of a joint life. The second, even at its worst seems to me far the better.

—C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady.