Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.