His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily