You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.