The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.