"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."
"Nothing is yet in its true form."
"The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not."
"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."