We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.