We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.