It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.