Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

Noting is more difficult than competing with a myth.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.

Necessity never made a good bargain.