All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.