Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.