O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

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

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.