Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.