I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.