Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.