The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.