and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.