If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.