The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.