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.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

It is always the secure who are humble.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.