Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.