The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

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.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.