To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

"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?"

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.