<p>“ ’The Mountain Road may be steep, but the air is pure up there, and it is from the Summit that one gets the view.’ ”</p>
<p>“ ’The Things that Really Matter happen in the Heart.’ ”</p>
<p>It was curious, Denis reflected, the way the Infinite sometimes repeated itself.</p>
<p>“ ’Seeing is Believing. Yes, but Believing is also Seeing. If I believe in God, I see God, even in the things that seem to be evil.’ ”</p>
<p><abbr>Mr.</abbr> Barbecue-Smith looked up from his notebook. “That last one,” he said, “is particularly subtle and beautiful, don’t you think? Without Inspiration I could never have hit on that.” He reread the apophthegm with a slower and more solemn utterance. “Straight from the Infinite,” he commented reflectively, then addressed himself to the next aphorism.</p>
<p>“ ’The flame of a candle gives Light, but it also Burns.’ ”</p>
These quotations within quotations begin with a left-double-quote and then a right-single-quote rather than two lefts.
<p>“… My scheme for dealing with the Church,” <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Scogan was saying, “is beautifully simple. At the present time the Anglican clergy wear their collars the wrong way round. I would compel them to wear, not only their collars, but all their clothes, turned back to frantic—coat, waistcoat, trousers, boots—so that every clergyman should present to the world a smooth façade, unbroken by stud, button, or lace. The enforcement of such a livery would act as a wholesome deterrent to those intending to enter the Church. At the same time it would enormously enhance, what Archbishop Laud so rightly insisted on, the ‘beauty of holiness’ in the few incorrigibles who could not be deterred.”</p>