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.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.