In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

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