People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

A gramme is better than a damn.

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.