There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.