The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.