No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller