What do they teach them at these schools?

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?