Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.