I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.