We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.