I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

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.

Plain lies are dangerous.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.