Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
“A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.”
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”