[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Am I lost or just less found?

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?