The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

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've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.