A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

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