I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.