The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.