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.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.