The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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.