Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.