Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.