If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.