Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.