Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

Universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work.