Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.