It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.