The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.