The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything – even pride.
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing – and he won’t be missed either.
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do – I can die.