The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.