Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.