but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.

When he grew tall enough to peep through the keyhole of the great lock of the main door, he had divers times set down his father's dinner, or supper, to get on as it might on the outer side thereof, while he stood taking cold in one eye by dint of peeping at her through that airy perspective.

David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!

Biblical exegesis without controls is apt to run away into total subjectivity.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

If you want to do something and you feel in your bones that it's the right thing to do, do it. Intuition is often as important as the facts. 663

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.