If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.

And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous