There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

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

Selfishness has never been admired.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.