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

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

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.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.