The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.