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

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

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

Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.