Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.