A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

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.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.