His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.