Always winter but never Christmas.
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
You die and die and then you are beyond death.
We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.