The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.