Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.
The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.