Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.