It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself who care little for his pursuits and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it and fills it with noble inclinations.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions of real interests and materials is indirect, because the crowd is never conscious of it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Sin is geographical.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us, in joy we face the storm and defy it.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

The Divine Will operating through the force of love does all this. For example though there are thousands gathered here absolute silence prevails. Under what compulsion? Only the compulsion of love. In other places where a hundred people collect a hundred and fifty constables are present to keep them quiet.

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