The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

The price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy is to be tied.

The whole thing became a matter of speculation: I was soon (in the famous words) altering ‘I believe' to ‘one does feel.' And oh, the relief of it!

The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading a work...Those read great works,on the other hand will read the same work ten, twenty or thirty times during the course of there life.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.

Things like Do Not Steal were, I think, hammered into boys' heads a good deal harder in those days than they are now. Still, we can never be certain.