The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

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

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.