Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.

That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.