In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.