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.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.