Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

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.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

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.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

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.