The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

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

I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.