Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

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

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.