But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.