Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself