The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

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.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.