It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.