Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.