Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.