Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.