I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

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.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.