The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.