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. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.