As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.