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 fifty and beyond.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.