I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

The absent are easily refuted.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

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.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.