It’s just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don’t hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when...

You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.

If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical. A real live man with two legs once said to me: ‘I only believe in the Holy Ghost...

Are you a devil?””I am a man,” answered Father Brown gravely; “and therefore have all devils in my heart.