There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.