The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.