It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.