“Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.”

“Jesus Christ was either a liar, a lunatic, or He was who He said He was”

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

“I don't believe your theory that "readers never notice that sort of thing." I'm sure I should.”

“If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.”

“The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

“We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.”