Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.