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

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.