The only Christian work is good work, well done

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.