It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.