The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.