Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.