You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

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

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.