From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.