Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.