In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained.

This wonder lasted nine daies.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Leisure is the exultation of the possible.

Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Absence and death are the same only that in death there is no suffering.

A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine. Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.

waiting always lasts long.

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained.