Faith means believing the unbelievable.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.