Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.