The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.