If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.