If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the r… - C. S. Lewis

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly.

Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.