English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.