For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

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.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.