Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.