Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
Study nature as the countenance of God.
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.
The world is God’s world, after all.
Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.