The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.