What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.