"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience."
"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."