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.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.