Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.