Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

You people have no imagination!

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.