The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.