Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.