We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "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 50 and beyond.

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.