A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.