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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
