The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."