As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.