The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.