Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.