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

She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.