Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

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.