Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.