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.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.