We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."