The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.