...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

There nearly always is a method in madness.