[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.