Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.