The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.