Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

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

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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.