Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.