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

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.