A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

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

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.