Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.