You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.