Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.