However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.