We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.