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

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.