Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.