The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

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.

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.