Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.