If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!