Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

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.