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.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.