We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.