We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.