As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.