The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand. - G. K. Chesterton

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.

"Father Brown looked him full in his frowning face. "Yes," he said, "I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.