As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.