The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.