Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.