Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.