“Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.”

“But for your eyes. Green as spring grass, and sparkling like dew in the morning sun.”

“. . . you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.”

“The world is a bad place only then when you are not good.”

“world is not destroying because the standard of living has been deteriorated, it is destroying because the standard of faith is deteriorated.”

“It was hard, to be stripped of the cold comforts of her simple atheistic faith in middle-age. The more so as the evidence seemed to lead to the conclusion that all the religions were true, including the ones that flatly contradicted each other.”

“Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.”