Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.