When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'