I believe in fate, never in chance.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.