It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.