Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.