If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.