Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. – James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," Literary Essays
The famous saying God is love, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the otherness and terror of God. – Charles Williams
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
