Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.