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.

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper