The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

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

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.