The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Human things are uncomfortably complex,

The evolutionists uproot the world, but not the flowers. The Titans never scaled heaven, but they laid waste the earth.

as his masters have already proved that alcohol is a poison, they may soon prove that nicotine is a poison.

It is a misfortune of modern language that the word “insignificant” is vaguely associated with the words “small” or “slight.” But a thing is insignificant when we do not know what it signifies.

In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

But this at least is part of what he meant; that comradeship and serious joy are not interludes in our travel; but that rather our travels are interludes in comradeship and joy, which through God shall endure for ever.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

scientist would probably be as much amused at the assumption that nobody can contradict Darwin as the Darwinian is at the assumption that nobody must contradict Moses.