The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.