Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

Do not dare not to dare.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.