How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.