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.'

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

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

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.