Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.