I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.