A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments