Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

Come, live with me and you'll know me.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.