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

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

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

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!