Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.