Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.