If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

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