Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.