Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

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

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.