Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

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'.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."