Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

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

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.