According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.