The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.