You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.