To tell the truth, my lonely musings, before you came in, were eloquent enough, in their way.

What do you know of anything but this strange, terrible world that surrounds you?
How do you know that your faith is not a mere crazy castle in the air; one of those castles that we are called fools for building when we lodge them in this life ?" "I don't know it, any more than any one knows the contrary.

But one's religion is extremely ingenious in doing without knowledge." "In such a world as this it certainly needs to be!" Rowland smiled.

"What is your particular quarrel with this world ?" "It 's a general quarrel.

Nothing is true, or fixed, or permanent.