Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.