Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.