A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.