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

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.