Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.