There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.