There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.