Sublime

he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.

The command of Christ is impossible, but it is not insane; it is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.

Perhaps the most thoroughly brilliant and typical man of this decade is Mr. Bernard Shaw.

the fact that there is nothing so really practical and urgent as ideal philosophy.

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