Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

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

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.