Delight is incomplete until it is expressed..

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks..

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavi….

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger..

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others..

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death..

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you bel….

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love..

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story..

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor….

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is..

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they con….

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I tr….

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can..

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely.

Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They ….

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come..

Things never happen the same way twice..

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise..

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it t….

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit..