The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.