So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.