If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

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

I don't want to hold you hand!

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.