Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

This place had once been the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such an one more agreeable and interesting.