The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.