That which is in a man, not that which lies beyond his vision is the main factor in what is about to befall him: the operation upon him is the event. - George MacDonald

What distressed me most — more even than my own folly — was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good.

All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already embodied.