The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.