Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.