One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. Persuasion

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. Counsels and Maxims

There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. Book II

The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. ... But this story has entered History and the primary world; ... It has pre-eminently the "inner consistency of reality." There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. ...this story is supreme; and it is true. Art has been verified. God is the Lord, of angels, and of men--and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused. On Fairy-Stories