The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.