If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

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

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.