The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.