but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.
I generally give the title-page a fair chance,” Roger said. “Once can’t always judge books merely by the cover.
An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
There is no possible idea,” Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, “to which the mind of man can’t supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.
It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.
The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you’ve been.