In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

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.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.