No one is ever holy without suffering.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles