It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum. One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best. To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.