Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

All government is an ugly necessity.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.