Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

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