You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.