Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.