If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.