Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.