The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.