My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.