Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

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.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.