Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.