The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.