Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.