“You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.”

“I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the sick, consider the dead.”

“It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.”

“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!”

“I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.”

“Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.”

“To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone makes to themselves when faced with the misery of others; though they would like to do the right thing, they simply fail to do so and look after themselves instead.”