Sublime

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

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.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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

He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,

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