Sublime

brevity which is the soul of wit.

To say that everybody is responsible means that nobody is responsible.

that the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.

This is the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy. People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. It was the equilibrium of a man behind madly rushing horses, seeming to

The idea of the equality of men is in substance simply the idea of the importance of man.

The experiences of the Founder of Christianity have perhaps left us in a vague doubt of the infallibility of courts of law.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value in any of them is that they bear the image of the King.

We had only a confused sense of everything having been put right, the sense men will have when they come into the presence of God.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton—that Catholic equivalent of Hotei, the “laughing Buddha”—who, though neither a great poet nor a great theologian, had the sort of bewitched imagination from which great poetry and theology can be made. He shone as an essayist and fantast, and of all his many essays the most profound and provoking was “On Nonsense,” the