... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.