"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.