Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.
Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.
Here at last is the thing I was made for.
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
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.