To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

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.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.