Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.