Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.