Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.