The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.