They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.