The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.