Sublime

He is in the clean and well-lit prison of one idea: he is sharpened to one painful point.

He feels that nothing is perfect unless it is personal.

He is much too practical to be precise.

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

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

The most important man on earth is the perfect man who is not there.

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

his greatest work may yet prove to be the perpetuation of the joyful mystery of Christmas.