Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.