The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.