You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'