Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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.