"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.