When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.