There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. And the higher and mightier it is in the natural order, the more demoniac it will be if it rebels.

Go and wake the others and tell them to follow. If they will not, then you at least must follow me alone.

He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.

He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.