Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.