Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons