In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.