Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?