Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.