The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Why should your heart not dance?

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.