Quotes about Author

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

...Mr. Hanway endeavours to show, that the consumption of tea is injurious to the interest of our country.... he is to expect little justice from the author of this extract, a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

I put in these parentheses to signify a complicated wink — you understand?

Here he went through the not very difficult process of winking upon the company with his solitary eye...

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

[W]ell I know that no man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it.

Maximus expressly says that the Incarnation—more precisely, the drama of Cross, grave, and Resurrection—is not only the midpoint of world history but the foundational idea of the world itself.

Maximus envisages a naturally lasting cosmos as the supporting ground for all supernatural divinization.

The world seeks it for us, who have need of such illumination. So also the Word became flesh, not for himself, but rather to bring the mystery of the Incarnation to reality for our sakes.

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.