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

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

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

"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?"

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

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.

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