Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

The past is not what it was.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.