The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.