It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

The word good has many meanings.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle