Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

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

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

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

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