Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.