There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.