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

"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?"

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

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

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

You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world.

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