You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.