Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.