For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.