Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.