He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

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

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.