Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.