Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.