At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

Freedom always comes with a price.